U.S. launches effort to document history of Indigenous residential schools
Project described as first step ‘toward addressing the intergenerational consequences’ WARNING: This story describes abuse in residential schools. The U.S.
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Pope Francis finishes Canadian visit in Nunavut
Residential school survivors, politicians, Inuit throat singers and drummers will be among the crowds meeting Pope Francis as he wraps
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‘A shared understanding’: Northerners take in Pope’s apology while looking to next steps
For Natan Obed, the apology by Pope Francis on Monday to Indigenous people in Canada for the role the Catholic Church
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Pope Francis apologizes for forced assimilation of Indigenous children at residential schools
The first day of Pope Francis’s “penitential pilgrimage” began with a heartfelt apology delivered at the site of one of
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‘This is my church’: Residential school survivor skipping papal visit to walk in ancestors’ footsteps
When Pope Francis addresses residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alberta on Monday, one survivor won’t be in the audience or
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Pope says he hopes Canada visit will help heal ‘evil’ done to Indigenous people
Pope Francis said on Sunday his trip to Canada next week will be a “pilgrimage of penance” that he hopes
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Pope Francis apologizes to Canadian Indigenous delegates for ‘deplorable’ abuses at residential schools
Indigenous delegates reflect on Pope Francis’s apology for the conduct of some members of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada’s
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Ottawa under pressure to collect records from Rome on Indigenous residential schools
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The federal government is under pressure to demand Catholic church entities hand over relevant
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Dene national chief says Canada’s Northwest Territories should create own school curriculum
‘It’s time that we step up and take ownership of our education,’ says Norman Yakeleya Alberta’s decision to renew its
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COVID-19 delays delivery of apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada
The long-planned provincial apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada has been called off due to continued delays
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Canada’s Northwest Territories: Former Métis leader says day school settlement forms ‘misleading’
A former N.W.T. Métis Council president alleges that day school settlement forms are “misleading” survivors away from the rightful money they deserve.
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Indigenous children who died in residential school commemorated in Quebec
A moving and sombre ceremony held Monday at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, included the
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National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation archives added to UNESCO world register
The collection of archives, personal stories and photos of residential school survivors at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
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Non-fiction book about inuk residential school survivor from Atlantic Canada attracts readers in Poland
Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book
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Survey in northern city asks parents: should O Canada be sung in schools?
The public school authority in Iqaluit, Nunavut is looking into whether O Canada should be sung at its four schools.
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